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[ verb ] show off

Used in print

(Marvin Schiller, "The Sheep's in the Meadow,"...)

But though I boasted and gave_off a dapper front , I was beneath_it_all frightened .

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[ verb ] wear or display in an ostentatious or proud manner

Synonyms

feature sport

Examples

"she was sporting a new hat"

Used in print

(Rocky Mountain News, [Denver, Colorado]...)

Innumerable motels from Tucson to New_York boast swimming_pools ( `` swim at your own risk '' is the hospitable sign poised at the brink of most pools ) .

Some even boast two pools , one for adults and one for children .

(San Francisco Chronicle...)

The Dolce_Vita get-together boasted a strip tease ( carried as far as a black slip ) ; a lady drunk on her hands and knees who carries the hero around on her back while he throws pillow feathers in her face ; a frigid beauty , and three silly fairies .

(The Christian Science Monitor,...)

In New_York_City , WLIB boasts `` more community service_programs than any other Negro station '' and `` one of the largest Negro news staffs in America '' .

(Life BR-C16. Saturday Review, 44:15 (April 15, 1961)...)

New_Hampshire figures its peak around Columbus_Day and boasts of all its hardwoods including the yellow of the birches .

Related terms

have feature

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[ noun ] speaking of yourself in superlatives

Used in print

(Vina Delmar, The Big Family....)

From actions aboard , it is easy to guess that Spencer 's boast of twenty staunch followers was a modest estimate '' .

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